This document provides instructions for creating different types of bubble charts in Tableau. It explains that bubble charts display data as circles sized proportionally to measure values and colored by dimension values. It then demonstrates how to create a simple bubble chart in Tableau showing profit amounts by ship mode, and how to modify it to display measure values within the circles or use shading to represent measure values.

1. Swipe
Tableau - Bubble Chart
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2. Bubble charts display data as a cluster of circles.
Each of the values in the dimension field
represents a circle whereas the values of measure
represent the size of those circles.
As the values are not going to be presented in any
row or column, you can drag the required fields to
different shelves under the marks card.
Tableau - Bubble Chart

3. Simple Bubble Chart
Using the Sample-superstore, let's plan to find the
size of profits for different ship mode.
To achieve this objective, following are the steps.
Step 1 − Drag and drop the measure profit into
the Size shelf under Marks card.
Step 2 − Drag and drop the dimension ship
mode into the Labels shelf under Marks card.
Step 3 − Pull the dimension ship mode to the
Colors shelf under Marks card.
The following chart appears.

5. Bubble Chart with Measure Values
You can also show the values of the measure field
which decides the size of the circles.
To do this, drag the sales measure into the Labels
shelf. The following chart appears.

7. Bubble Chart with Measure Colors
Instead of coloring each circle with a different
color, you can use a single color with different
shades.
For this, drag the measure sales into the color
shelf.
The higher values represent darker shades while
the smaller values represent lighter shades.

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